Tapbots recently released Pastebot 3, the latest version of its popular clipboard management software.
Like previous versions of Pastebot, Pastebot 3 saves everything you copy so it’s easy to find and paste when needed. You can store links and other content you paste often and organize snippets by category in custom Pastebins.
There are also rule-based Smart Pastebins for automatic organization, like every link or image copied from Safari. Smart Pastebins can be filtered by clipping size, type, file extension, creation date, text, text length, etc. Multiple parameters can be combined for detailed filtering, and custom notes can be added to clippings to make them easy to find via search.
You can create more powerful custom filters and apply them to the text you’ve copied before pasting it. You can do things like convert to plain text and remove smart punctuation, wrap what you paste in paragraph tags, convert to upper or lower case, remove emojis, find and replace, extract URLs or phone numbers, remove blank lines, sort and translate. Multiple filters can be combined and keyboard shortcuts can be assigned to the filters you use most often.
A quick paste menu can be activated with a Shift+Command+V keyboard shortcut to display your most frequently used clippings in any application, and there’s a Stack function for copying multiple items and pasting them one after the other.
You can add apps to Pastebot’s blacklist, and content copied from apps on the list is never saved to Pastebot, which is useful for protecting passwords. All Pastebot content and filters sync across Macs with iCloud, and there are options to customize the number of clippings saved. You can keep up to 1,500.
Tapbots says that Pastebot 3 was designed to work with Apple’s Universal Clipboard feature and that once enabled and active, anything you copy to your iPhone is automatically saved to Pastebot. Clippings saved in Pastebot can also be pasted to iPhone. Pastebot 3 supports Apple shortcuts and CLI access to automate cuts.
Pastebot 3 requires macOS Tahoe or later. It can be purchased directly from Tapbots for $39, with one year of updates included and the option to purchase another year of updates for $19. There is also an option to purchase from the Mac App Store with a subscription of $24.99 per year or $2.99 per month. Pastebot customers who enter a Pastebot 2 license key can receive an upgrade discount of $12.99 on the direct purchase option. New customers can try the app for 14 days.
